Clothes-pin



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CLOTHES PIN. 2.762. Patented Feb.20,1883. I 1

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD B. PERKINS, OF HORNELLSVILLE, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-- HALF TO RUSSEL P. HEILMAN, OF EMPORIUM, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTH ES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,762, dated February 20, 1883.

Application filed November 16, 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RICHARD B. PERKINS, of Hornellsville, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Pin, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact desciiption.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved clothes-pin which is so constructed that it prevents the ciothes from be- IO ing blown ofi' the line.

The invention consists in a clothes-pin having a spring-wire attached to the same, the free end of which wire passes through a slit in the end of one prong of the pin and rests 1 against the inner surface of the other prong, which spring prevents the clothes-pin from droppingfroln theline and prevents theclothes from being blown lrom the line.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate.

corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved clothes-pin. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal 2 elevation of the same, showing the manner in which it is held on the line.

Aspring-wire, B, has one end secured to an ordinary clothes-pin,A, at or near the middle of the same,and thefree endof thesaid spring- 0 wire A is bent to form a beveled hook, U, or a loop, which passes through a longitudinal recess or slit, D, in the end of one shank of the pin and rests against the inner surfaceof the other shank, as shown. In the case shown the wire Bis provided with a loop or coil, E, to give the wire the necessary spring; but the wire may be bent in any other suitable man-' ner for the same purpose. As one end of the wire passes through the clothes-pin, it strength- 0 ens the same. The pin is passed on a clothesline, F, in the usual manner, and the pressure causes the line to press the beveled hook or loop 0 to oneside,and after the linehas passed between the prongs of the fork a-certain distance the loop or book snaps back and pre- 5 vents the pin lrom dropping off the line, and also prevents the clothes from being blown off.

If a clothes-pin is provided with the springwire, it need not be pressed as far on the line as a clothes-pin of the usual construction, and 0 it is thus not so apt to split, and consequently lasts longer. If the pin is to be removed, it need simply be drawn upward. The hook or eye 0 is then pressed into the slit D, and perinits' the line to pass out from between the prongs of the pin.

Havingthus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure-by Letters Patent 1. A clothes-pin made, substantially as herein shown and described, with a spring-catch which passes through one prong and presses against the inner surface of the other prong, as and for the purpose set lorth.

2. The combination, with the clothes-pin A, having a slit, D, in the end of one prong, of the spring-wire B, secured to the pin, and having its free end passed through the slit in the prong and resting against the inner surface of the other prong, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth. 7o

3. The combination, with the clothes-pin A, having a slit, D, in the end of one prong, of the spring-wire B, secured in the pin A, and having a beveled hook or loop, 0, at its end, the said loop passing through the slit D and 7 resting against the inner surface of the other prong, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

RICHARD B. PERKINS.

Witnesses JAMES H. CLANCY, DE MELVILLE PAGE. 

